AtomicMrX

Today is my Mother’s birthday. I hope she has a wonderful time playing golf this morning and enjoys her Birthday!

Happy Birthday Mom!

I love you!

I stumbled across a new video on YouTube for Grace Jones. She has a new album coming out and based on the video for one of the new songs it sounds fantastic! So after seeing Grace again I am reminded of other favorite groups from the 80’s. Here are some of the videos I like from Ultravox and Nina Hagen, plus the video for Grace Jones new song “Corporate Cannibal”.

I’m sure most viewing these will not find them interesting but I know there are a few leftover 80’s alternative/punk fans that will so here they are:

Grace Jones - Corporate Cannibal

Nina Hagen - Future is Now Live

Nina Hagen - TV Glotzer Live

Ultravox - Vienna [stereo]

Ultravox - The Voice Live

Ultravox - All Stood Still Live

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Well, the Topsy Turvy Tomatoes are doing great so I thought I would share some photos of their progress.

Here is Tiny Tim and Super Bush:

We should have nice red tomatoes by the end of next week!

For the 4th I went over to Jim’s house and he prepared some very delicious chicken, BBQ Beans and Potato Salad. It was a nice time. I unfortunately spent a great deal of the visit on Andy’s new laptop hooking him up with fonts, software, and basic updates. You could call it a working dinner. I still had fun but in a geek-e-er way.

I still have to do one software install for him. For some reason it didn’t work right at all. It could be how I duped the files. I’ll retry from the original.

When I got home from Jim’s; Shannon and I went to the River Front Park and watched the fireworks. It was crazy packed with people. They gave shuttle busses of people rides from the River Market to the River Front Park. There were probably about 12 or so very long school busses making the circuit.

I didn’t like being around that many people in one little area. It was weird. Kind of felt like a sci-fi movie and we were all fleeing the city with the only transportation left. As we sat in the school bus going over the bridges; people were walking along side the bus in hordes. It was very surreal.

Jaki handled the fireworks very well this year. I don’t think there was as much illegal stuff shooting off this year as in the past.

I hope everyone had a safe and fun filled fourth!

I had an appointment with my Dermatologist Wednesday night after work. My appointment was for 4:30 so I showed up in their parking lot at 3:40 and talked with Mom on the phone for a half hour to see if their power was back on and to get caught up on the news. So around 4:15 I though I should go in and begin the wait in their waiting room. They are never prompt and you have to sit in their waiting room for at least 15 to 20 minutes before they put you in a little room and wait some more for the doctor.

Finally at 4:55 I was taken to a little room to await the doctor. The A/C was not working right and I was hot in the room! I mean hot! Well, I waited and waited and waited and waited. I thought everyone had left at one point and forgot I was in a room but then at 6:15 (yes that is six fifteen!) the doctor came in to do the follow up on two ingrown hairs that she gave me some ointment for (which did nothing). She spent about 2 and a half minutes with me telling me I was stuck with the little bumps unless I want to get them cut out which would leave a two inch scar (let’s see a bump the size of an eraser or a two inch scar…. hmmmm). That was it. I waited for an hour and forty-five minutes to see the doctor for 2 minutes. I think she felt bad. She apologized numerous times for making me wait.

I left the dermatologist just furious and agitated. There had gone three hours of my already short evening. By the time I got home it was 7:00 (I go to bed at 8:30). I got a call from Shannon at 8:00 (got off from work) and went to get him then went directly to bed.

To make things worse, a storm was moving through at the time I went to get Shannon from his work and bring him home. The winds were so strong it made it hard to see out the windows of the car - they were a sheet of water! Plus it had nocked the power off at some of the major intersections and suddenly everyone was stupid and either sat at the intersection not knowing what to do or ran through blindly!

I’m taking some Personal Time today at work (probably two hours) so I can go home and just do nothing! I think I need a vacation (which I can’t afford). Everything seems to irritate me lately. I’ve eaten really badly this week and that is making me mad too. I need to get back on track.